Film news: Datafilm App

Film news: Datafilm App

Vincent Tantardini has been making an app. For film photographers. Vincent has put together a simple and free app that helps you to log your film usage. And it doesn't collect any of your data too, which is a very nice plus. Check out the Datafilm App.

Datafilm

I've recently created Datafilm, a note app for film photographers, to help them keep track of their settings and improve their practice. It all started with my own needs, and then I thought it may be a good idea to make it available for everyone.

This is not a commercial project. It's made by myself only, for passionate people. There is also no data collected, personal or not.

I was hoping that such an app could be interesting for film photographers. I also believe that great products are built over time, using user feedback and iterations. So yes, any feedback would be more than welcome :)

Apps

As a side note, I just wanted to answer an unasked but legit question: "I think apps like this are already available, free or not, why would I even try this one out?"

In one hand, I would answer that around 95% of them are factually quite old, outdated, not maintained, and lacking of what I've identified as key features.
And in the other hand there's a product on the market that, on paper, does pretty much everything you could think of. It's called Film shots - analog photo exif. Android, iOS, iPad, iWatch, Android Watch, handles filters, brings up concepts/features as film stages, like "shooting" > "in development" > "printed", etc.

While this project definitely brings up some interesting concepts, I had a different vision for Datafilm, relying less on a big amount of low usage features or device compatibility and more on user experience and simplicity.

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So long story short, and I believe this may speaks to you. I have designed Datafilm as a Leica M, let's say in my mind it's an MP3, however it may only be an M2, or even the first M prototype haha :) Joke apart, the design thinking and approach was to get something viable, you can use along time, handy, fast, with a great user experience, readable, browsable, and maintainable over time.
I would say it's all focus on user experience. Took me around 4-5 months full time to picture it out in my mind and then make it happen. A simple but intuitive Note app as a companion to our film experience. Our phone is always with us, however I believe we don't need and want this extra piece of pen and paper in our pockets :)

Vincent Tantardini

<http://dribbble.com/vt>

Thanks to Vincent for sharing his project. Please check it out and make sure you give him feedback. It is always cool to see projects like these.

You can download the app here <https://apps.apple.com/th/app/datafilm/id1579488213>

JCH

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Film news: Datafilm App

Film news: Datafilm App

Vincent Tantardini has been making an app. For film photographers. Vincent has put together a simple and free app that helps you to log your film usage. And it doesn't collect any of your data too, which is a very nice plus. Check out the Datafilm App.

Datafilm

I've recently created Datafilm, a note app for film photographers, to help them keep track of their settings and improve their practice. It all started with my own needs, and then I thought it may be a good idea to make it available for everyone.

This is not a commercial project. It's made by myself only, for passionate people. There is also no data collected, personal or not.

I was hoping that such an app could be interesting for film photographers. I also believe that great products are built over time, using user feedback and iterations. So yes, any feedback would be more than welcome :)

Apps

As a side note, I just wanted to answer an unasked but legit question: "I think apps like this are already available, free or not, why would I even try this one out?"

In one hand, I would answer that around 95% of them are factually quite old, outdated, not maintained, and lacking of what I've identified as key features.
And in the other hand there's a product on the market that, on paper, does pretty much everything you could think of. It's called Film shots - analog photo exif. Android, iOS, iPad, iWatch, Android Watch, handles filters, brings up concepts/features as film stages, like "shooting" > "in development" > "printed", etc.

My opinion about this product is that for research and development purposes, yes it is cool pretty cool, I did think about these kind of features during my own creation process too.
However, there's a couple of problems with this app: it crashes from time to time, it's confusing, it's slow, it's not handy, it's not necessary that "slick and clean" when it comes to visual design… It provides a lot of really cool and interesting features yes.. targeting maybe 3% of users (meaning they are actually polluting the 97% left over at the same time), etc… (I'm not here to bash, I think it is cool, it just doesn't suit me and my vision of great products).

Screenshots

library

All Films

recorder

recorder

Simple

So long story short, and I believe this may speaks to you. I have designed Datafilm as a Leica M, let's say in my mind it's an MP3, however it may only be an M2, or even the first M prototype haha :) Joke apart, the design thinking and approach was to get something viable, you can use along time, handy, fast, with a great user experience, readable, browsable, and maintainable over time.
I would say it's all focus on user experience. Took me around 4-5 months full time to picture it out in my mind and then make it happen. A simple but intuitive Note app as a companion to our film experience. Our phone is always with us, however I believe we don't need and want this extra piece of pen and paper in our pockets :)

Vincent Tantardini

<http://dribbble.com/vt>

Thanks to Vincent for sharing his project. Please check it out and make sure you give him feedback. It is always cool to see projects like these.

You can download the app here <https://apps.apple.com/th/app/datafilm/id1579488213>

JCH

frame settings copy

record

share full view

browse full view

share

export

The post Film news: Datafilm App appeared first on Japan Camera Hunter.

#filmnews #datafilmapp #japancamerablog #japancamera #japancamerahunter #photographyapp